Comments on: Dear Geocaching Diary: Orange Headbands for the Winhttps://www.geocaching.com/blog/2013/09/dear-geocaching-diary-orange-headbands-for-the-win/
The Official Blog of GeocachingThu, 08 Dec 2016 10:01:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Deere57https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2013/09/dear-geocaching-diary-orange-headbands-for-the-win/comment-page-1/#comment-22041
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:11:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-22041By the skin of our teeth (it felt like), my daughters and I managed all 31 days. Thankfully we’ve not been caching that long so we had not overcached our 10mi radius. What made it challenging is that I could have easily gone out on my lunch break and made finds, but they wanted to tag along each day too. So, every evening I’d pick them up from my mom and dad’s (also cachers) and go to the nearest cache. I think DNFs were common because we’d be in a hurry so we’d pick another to find. We had great support from our local cachers though. The East Side Gang in Georgia is the creme de la creme. One couple in our group hid 2 new caches every day of August and some were named for various geonicks in the group. The ESG also created a BBQ-ED series where multiple people in our group hid caches at various BBQ joints. I think we ended up with 25 or so of those. Each day, a member of the ESG would post in our group page and encouragement asking us to tell our daily story. This spurred us on.

In our quest for geocaches we were FTF on several including one in our Sunday clothes! We also paid it forward by hiding 5 new ones for our friends to find. However, I was really glad when August came to a close. Not before we spent the 31st by finding 23 geocaches with friends and ending with an ESG meet and greet at where else, but a BBQ place!

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Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:21:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21784My cache buddy Maggic and I live in a remote area where it’s “ecologically irresponsible” to use half a tank of gas to drive to one cache, but we got 25 days in and over 60 caches found! Highlights? The RLAGE series in Coudersport was a hoot, 12 “eggs” collected. We relaxed with a Ranger Rick Geotrail the 31st, which was fun. The best day was the 17th which we spent in McKean County on the Allegeheny Geotrail, high-quality caches in superb places! I awarded lots of well-earned favorite points this month.
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Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:36:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21780I really wanted to do this 31 day challenge, but where I live there just weren’t enough caches. I would have had to drive an hour away every day to complete this challenge, so instead, I HID 31 geocaches in the month of August. I created a series called Return The Favor Series (31 Days of Geocaching) I placed 1 geocache every day in the month of August. The “Return The Favor” Part of the series name was to hopefully inspire geocachers in the area to get out there and place some geocaches! Hope it works! 🙂 ~JZSAH
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Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:54:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21779When I began this challenge I knew it would be tough as I had tumor removal surgery scheduled for August 12. Predictably, the first 11 days of the challenge were easy. On the day of the surgery we needed an easy cache near OSU’s James Cancer Center so we snagged one appropriately titled “Faith” at 4:50 AM (ten minutes before scheduled check-in) a mere .1 miles from the hospital. The surgery went much longer than planned and due to complications they kept me overnight. When they released me from the hospital I felt like death warmed over. Mrs. Amazing drove to the nearest park and grab and brought it over to the car window for me to sign the log. Over the next 7 days Mrs. Amazing drove me 25-30 minutes to the nearest cache and then I would walk to GZ with that stupid and painful Foley catheter in place. There were two of those days where pain, nausea and spasms made me declare I was giving up. Mrs. Amazing broke those outings down into a series of small steps and gently nudged me the whole way through. On August 21 I went back to work and resumed lunchtime geocaching. I alternated days of going solo or with Ed the Navigator who coddled me like an injured baby chick. On one of my lunch hour solo trips I had to pee about every ten minutes (a byproduct of the surgery) and made a total of five restroom stops. Miserable. Also, in the midst of these 31 days were four where schedules would only permit quick caching jaunts. Since I no longer had any of those left in my area Grey-n-Red and osubrownsfan provided tremendous help on nearby puzzles.

So I decided to conquer “Alcatraz!” (GC35N51) as it would make a great milestone for day 31. Mrs. Amazing and Starrycacher were there as well for moral support and as spotters. The water level and flow rate were noticeably down so the walk out to “the rock” went fairly smooth. I lost my balance upon reaching the rock and received a proper baptism. We spent very little time searching for the container and as is typically the case Mrs. Amazing found the hide. As I was signing the log a nearby fisherman proudly held up a two-foot long shovel head fish for us to view. We returned the container to its hiding place and with big smiles on our faces made our escape and returned to civilization.

There are those who think geocaching is nothing more than an electronic Easter egg hunt. I disagree. It’s about fun and friendships and support. As one who walked a difficult path for a short time I can safely say it was a ray of sunshine in a dark place.

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Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:58:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21778I got my 31 in 31 days and then some. This was my most productive Geo caching month and not just for the amount of caches found. I turned a few more people on to the game. We started mapping out our lunch hour and going out to get a find or two along with a good walk. No more sitting around at lunch time for a few co-workers of mine.
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Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:23:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21777After not having done much of any Geocaching for the last couple of
years, the 31 Days of Geocaching challenge got me back into the game
again. I was able to do 27 of 31 days which was a great change of pace. I
even placed a new hide of my own. So my highlight would be just getting
back into Geocaching again!
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Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:32:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21773My most interesting outcome is a bit of event caching.

My personal outcome is that I started to take on the “one found each day, 366 days of the year” challenge. And blacklisted (“Ignore”) a few hundred mystery caches in the area, to clean up both the map view and my PQs.

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Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:27:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21769I met the 31-in-31 challenge, the first 25 days had a FTF each day! Then a quick trip to Las Vegas ended the FTF streak but I was able to continue there and introduce my sisters to geocaching! Today my 32nd day of the 31-day challenge was great; I found the oldest cache in California – Phil’s Cache, in addition to getting in a little hiking time!
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Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:51:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21768I met the 31in31 challenge even though I had a week of pager duty and a road trip from Colorado to Indianapolis for the MotoGP race. My favorite cache was the final one: at the entrance to Fort Robinson in Nebraska, where my grandfather served in the Army during World War 2.
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Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:59:00 +0000https://www.geocaching.com/blog/?p=17940#comment-21767Two caches over 4318 miles from TN in Bassett Normanda , France were THE best in the 31 day challenge. D-Day, GC 32920 and I Love Mont Saint Michel, GC4GPOE. Thanks to the cache owners for this great opportunity!
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